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W- E. DOUBLEDAY.

MAKING FUR BATS.

No. 264,823; Patented Sept. 19, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. DOUBLEDAY, OF BAY RIDGE, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR- TO ELLEN M. DOUBLEDAY, OF SAME PLACE.

MAKING FUR BATS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 264,823, dated September 19, 1882. Application filed July 11, 1882. (No model.)

of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Making Fur Bats, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings. i

The object of my invention is to produce, as

anew article of manufacture, the improved for bat adapted 'to be used in the manufacture of fur hats or flowing-trapped hats, or for the manufacture of fur cloth or fur-faced cloth, or for any other similar purpose.

In the drawings I haveillustrated one method of making and using such a bat.

Figure l is a vertical section of the bat. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a. hat-body having my bat applied thereto, with its lower edge turned up inside the hat-body to form the under brim. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of Fig. 2 when folded together ready for sticking; and Fig. 4 is a similar section without that portion of the bat which forms the under brim.

In making my hat by one method Ipropose to use an ordinary blowiug-machiue.such as is commonly used for similar purposes-and dcposit the lur upon an exhausted reticulated cone in such quantity as shall be necessary to form a bat ot'the required thickness. After this part of the operation has been completed I take a sheet of that kind of cotton commonly k nown in the market as cotton wadding and split the same,.thereby forming two thinner sheets, one face of each sheet being comparatively smooth, and usually glazed, the opposite side of each sheet being ofa loose fibrous character. 1 then wrap the fur which is upon the exhausted cone with one of these split sheets,

. placing its loose fibrous side next to the fur, in

substantially the same manner as has sometimes been done with a cloth, using water for wetting the same when necessary.

In the drawings, A represents the fur portion ofthe bat, B the sheetof cotton wadding, and O the hat-bod y to which the bat is applied.

| Ipropose to then fold the hat, as indicated in Fig. 3, when it is ready for the operation of sticking; or, when preferred, the hat-body having the bat appliedto it may be rolled up and then subjected to the sticking operation.

It will of course be understood that the under brim may be made in a separate piece from the bat, which is applied to the outer surface of the hat-body and applied afterward.

I may use this method ot'manufacture in the production of bats other than those which are intended to produce the flowing nap; but I have found it specially adapted for this class of work,,owing to the fact that by applying the cotton with the glazed or smooth surface outward the loose cot-ton fibers which-are in contact with the fur promote a satisfactory sticking and subsequent scalding, and at the same time leave a loose flowing n'ap of fur, from which the cotton can be readily removed by heating or shaking; or, when preferred, the nap bat may be made by any usual operation, such as bowing ort'orming it upon a for-aminous flat plate or a reticulated exhausted cylinder, after Which the split sheet of cottonbat'jing can be applied either with or without wetting, this latter method being more particularly adapted for the making of a hat or bats to be applied toacontinuous sheet of felted or woven cloth, to which the fur is afterward stuck and then scalded.

What I claim is- 1. As a. new article of manufacture, a for bat having its outersurface formed of a. sheet of cotton wadding, substantially as set forth.

2. Thehereinakscribed process of making a 

